The Trump administration secured the Ukrainian resource deal that was tanked when President Trump and President Zelensky had a tiff in the White House in February.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the deal, calling it a “historic economic partnership agreement between the United States and Ukraine establishing the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund to help accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery. Economic security is national security.”
The U.S. will “invest” in Ukraine and “unlock” natural resources, they say. This means that once the war ends, the U.S. will have rights to rebuild Ukraine and mine the resources that the Ukrainian government has historically exploited through corruption. It’s a good deal in exchange for all of the money that the U.S. sent to Ukraine. It is exactly what Democrats said that they wanted out of Ukraine in secret. The Trump administration is doing it in plain sight.
“Today’s agreement signals clearly to Russian leadership that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine over the long term.”
If the war ends, Ukraine will hardly be sovereign. It will be beholden to the United States like it has been since 2014, only more so. But at least the war would be over and the current U.S. puppetmasters would not be provoking Russia.
